The headphones you control with your eyes

When you want to change music on your MP3 player you normally just reach for your music box and press a button, tap a screen or even in some cases shake it. But DoCoMo, the Japanese mobile phone operator is looking at a different solution; using your eyes.

In what sounds like something out of a Sci-Fi movie about the future, the headphones work by detecting electrooculograms your brain sends out when you move your eyes.

To play, pause, skip tracks or change the volume, you have to roll your eyes or shift them side to side or up and down.

The system, which is voice and hands free even works with your eyes closed.

Stuart has been a tech journalist since 1998 and written for a number of publications around the world. Regularly turning up on television, radio and in newspapers, Stuart has played with virtually every gadget available.